43. GREAT SOCIETY and AMERICAN CONSERVATISM with Amity Shlaes
Episode description
Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, The Forgotten Man/Graphic, and The Greedy Hand. Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. She chairs the Hayek Prize, a prize for free market books given by the Manhattan Institute. She is a presidential scholar at Kings College/New York.
Most recently she is the author of Great Society: A New History, which is a stunning analysis of the social welfare policies passed in the 1960s.
Amity Shlaes Book Recommendations:
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge - Amity Shlaes
Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy - Jeffrey Garten
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition - Jean M. Yarbrough
The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs - John Cogan
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